A journalist had done a story on gender roles in
Kuwait several years before the Gulf War, and she
noted then that women customarily walked about
10 feet behind their husbands.
She returned to Kuwait
recently and observed that the men now walked
several yards behind their wives.
She approached one of the women for an explanation.
"This is marvelous," said the journalist. "What enabled women here to
achieve this reversal of roles?"
To which the Kuwaiti woman replied:
"Land mines."